I just reviewed Left Brain, Right Brain running on the Nintendo DS ($20, Created by Japan Arts for Majesco Entertainment). What caught my eye about this title is the way that it first gives you the task -- moving a dot through a maze, and then asks you to repeat the task with your non-dominant hand. What's interesting about this is that you are shown your dominant hand's progress, in real time, by way of a different colored dot on the screen. So you compete with yourself, but you get a lot of other task specific information as well, such as when/where you pause to navigate through a particularly treacherous part of the maze, and so on. The image below is from another task, where you try to connect a series of circles with a single line. This "race against yourself" technique was also used in Quarter Mile Math (Barnum Software) many years ago. But this is the first time I've ever seen it used with a pen based interface.
Capturing the Magic: You as Your Own Teacher
by Warren BuckleitnerI just reviewed Left Brain, Right Brain running on the Nintendo DS ($20, Created by Japan Arts for Majesco Entertainment). What caught my eye about this title is the way that it first gives you the task -- moving a dot through a maze, and then asks you to repeat the task with your non-dominant hand. What's interesting about this is that you are shown your dominant hand's progress, in real time, by way of a different colored dot on the screen. So you compete with yourself, but you get a lot of other task specific information as well, such as when/where you pause to navigate through a particularly treacherous part of the maze, and so on. The image below is from another task, where you try to connect a series of circles with a single line. This "race against yourself" technique was also used in Quarter Mile Math (Barnum Software) many years ago. But this is the first time I've ever seen it used with a pen based interface.